On 8/2/09 7:26 AM, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
It seems to me that delivering *static* thumbnails of
GIF images, either
in GIF or PNG format, would be a considerable improvement over the
current situation. And indeed, the code to do that seems to be already
in place: just set $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea = 0;
So, my questions would be:
1. Is there a reason we don't do this already?
IIRC, we don't yet have working detection for animated GIFs:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16451
Looks like Andrew put together an updated patch a couple months ago but
didn't have a chance to test and confirm it was working properly. Anyone
care to take a peek?
-- brion